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> [“the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/the-place-where-optism-most-flourishes-is-the-lunatic-asylum/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

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> [“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/had-there-been-a-lunatic-asylum-in-the-suburbs-of-jerusalem-jesus-2/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

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## More by Havelock Ellis

> [The mother is the child's supreme parent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/the-mother-is-the-child-s-supreme-parent/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/all-progress-in-literary-style-lies-in-the-heroic-resolve-to-cast/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/dreams-are-real-as-long-as-they-last-can-we-say-more-of-life/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/the-immense-value-of-becoming-acquainted-with-a-foreign-language-is/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/greek-is-the-embodiment-of-the-fluent-speech-that-runs-or-soars-the/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/those-persons-who-are-burning-to-display-heroism-may-rest-assured/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/all-arguments-are-meaningless-until-we-gain-personal-experience-one/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/however-well-organised-the-foundations-of-life-may-be-life-must/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/dancing-and-building-are-the-two-primary-and-essential-arts-the-art/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/failing-to-find-in-women-exactly-the-same-kind-of-sexual-emotions-as/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/the-husband-by-primitive-instinct-partly-certainly-by-ancient/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [“All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/all-civilisation-has-from-time-to-time-become-a-thin-crust-over-a/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/for-every-fresh-stage-in-our-lives-we-need-a-fresh-education-and/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/the-sexual-regions-constitute-a-particularly-vulnerable-spot-and/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

> [Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/havelock-ellis/sexual-pleasure-wisely-used-and-not-abused-may-prove-the-stimulus-and/)

[Havelock Ellis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/havelock-ellis/)

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